Aśka

Aśka (ASH-KA) is an energetic visual storyteller, comics maker and science communicator living in Perth. A hugely engaging and popular presenter, she is passionate about visual literacy, and has published more than ten books, comics and graphic novels including illustrating the CBCA notable Stars In Their Eyes (text by Jess Walton) with Fremantle Press.

Aśka is part of the organising team for the Perth Comic Arts Festival, regularly contributes to The School Magazine and is an active member of the Australian children’s publishing community. She is also a recipient of several government Arts grants, prizes, and the May Gibbs Fellowship.

(Photo credit Emanuel Rudnicki)

Georgina Chadderton

Georgina Chadderton is a freelance cartoonist and educator from Adelaide. Gina runs a variety of workshops in comic-making, art and drawing skills for kids, teens and adults. She is working on her graphic novel memoir; Oh, Brother, which will be published in the US, UK, Canada and Australia in 2024.

(Photo credit Gabriel Clark)

Charlotte Dennis

Charlotte Dennis is an illustrator and art educator from Austin, Texas. She uses ink, watercolour, gouache, and cut paper to make illustrations about community, nature, and magic. She is currently working on an early reader series for Montessori for All.

Serena Geddes

Serena Geddes is an international author/illustrator, ex Disney artist and a lover of dogs and coffee. She has illustrated over seventy titles for picture books and middle grade readers and is about to step into the colourful world of graphic novels. Some of her works include Rosie and Rasmus (USA) the Lulu Bell, Misty Inn and Pepper Creek Ponies series. In her spare time, she captures her life through sketches and comics, seeks out humour in her week and teaches illustration and mindfulness journaling. As a Disney artist she worked on sequels to the Lion King, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid and Jungle Book which has enabled her to capture emotion and movement with her characters. Serena works both digitally and traditionally in watercolour and pencil. 

Shelley Knoll-Miller

Shelley Knoll-Miller has worked as a cartoonist for over twenty years including with The Melbourne Age. In 2020 Shelley was awarded a place on the the Maurice Saxby Mentorship program and the ASA Style File Illustrator Award. Shelley lives in a strawbale home that she built with her husband and is currently raising three children, and growing a large permaculture garden, along with her illustration work. Shelley illustrated her first picture book for Scholastic and currently writing and illustrating a four book picture book project with Penguin Random House Australia.

Alice Lindstrom

Alice Lindstrom is an illustrator and artist who creates painterly paper collages by hand using cut and paste techniques. Alice has illustrated three picture books working with publishers including Hardie Grant, Scribble Books and Quarto Kids. She lives in Adelaide with her husband and daughter.

Dave Petzold

Dave Petzold is an illustrator and author living on Bundjalung Country in Lennox Head, New South Wales.

He loves creating characters who are curious and adventurous about their world and his stories embody a love of nature. He works initially with graphite pencil, ink or oil paint before adding colour and texture digitally.

In 2021 his debut picture book, Seven Seas of Fleas was CBCA Shortlisted for the New Illustrator Award.

Judith Rossell

Judith Rossell is the multi-award-winning author-illustrator of the bestselling Stella Montgomery series. (Withering-by-Sea, Wormwood Mire and Wakestone Hall). Judith has written fifteen books and illustrated more than eighty, most recently the novelty board book Play with your Plate, published by Abrams Books in New York, and the picture books Bogtrotter and Pink! both written by Margaret Wild. Her work has been published in the US and UK, and translated into more than twenty languages.

Before becoming an illustrator, Judith worked as a scientist at CSIRO, and in product development for a cotton spinning company. She lives in Melbourne.

Kim Siew

Kim Siew is an illustrator and artist living in Sydney. She draws pictures digitally or using fine tip pen and paper collage, and paints street murals, usually of quirky, playful characters moving about their whimsical everyday. She has illustrated two published children's books as well an acclaimed memory game series including At the Gallery, At the Bookshop and At the Museum with Thames and Hudson Australia.

Sally Soweol Han

Sally Soweol Han is a writer and illustrator from Sydney who describes her style as 'painting her imagination'. Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2020, Sally uses traditional techniques to create stunning art. Sally has illustrated a number of picture book and fiction projects, and her first picture book and author / illustrator, Tiny Wonders, was recently published by University of Queensland Press.

Laura Stitzel

Laura Stitzel an author, illustrator and animator from Melbourne. Her work is a combination of watercolour, ink and painting. She is the author/illustrator of two picture books - Mr Mo Starts to Grow and Moonlight Mums.  She has illustrated books for Penguin Random House, Hachette, Scholastic, and Hinkler Books. As a background artist and animator in Australia and Canada, Laura has worked on animated television shows for PBS, Disney, Warner Bros, Netflix, ABC and more.  

Robin Tatlow Lord

Robin Tatlow-Lord is an illustrator, writer and cartoonist living in Adelaide, on Kaurna land. Working with pencils, watercolor, ink, collage and digital techniques, Robin has a great love of character and storytelling. Robin’s vivid and expressive illustrations for her first picture book, Go Away, Worry Monster! earned her a place on the 2021 shortlist for the CBCA New Illustrator Award. Her second book, Tilly’s First Day Twist, was published in April 2022 by Little Book Press. Robin has two picture book projects and a middle grade graphic novel series in development. She also conducts kids' art workshops and is the Education Coordinator for Patch Theatre.

Kristen Willis

Kristen Willis is a multi-media artist based in Brisbane. She explores all aspects of illustration, printmaking and graphic design by mixing fine-art techniques with digital media.

Born in Far North Queensland surrounded by biscotti and sugar cane fields, Kristen is inspired by her Australian-Italian heritage.

 Kristen holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours (majoring in printmaking and drawing) and an accredited certification in Graphic Design. She lives with her family in Brisbane and runs her own graphic design business Tondo Creative.

Anna Zobel

Anna Zobel is an artist and educator from Melbourne. She is the illustrator of the CBCA-shortlisted Who’s Your Real Mum? and the author and illustrator of Little Gem and Little Gem and the Mysterious Letters. When she isn’t making books, Anna runs art workshops for children and adults.